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What do people use to read RSS feeds? I stopped following RSS feeds ever since Google Reader shut down, and wondering what a good free replacement is.
I completely agree with this sentiment. Mastodon, or whatever, is fine but RSS is the backbone of blogging. It always annoys me when sites request permissions to send me notifications - hey idiots, if I like your site I'll subscribe using your RSS feed and read at my pleasure. You don't have one? Bye then. In my perfect world browsers have RSS support built in and aggregators like Facebook would allow RSS feeds to be…
I have heard it said that normal people don't use RSS but many power users still do. I'm now on Netnewswire 5: https://nnw.ranchero.com/ and write a blog: http://jakeseliger.com that includes a lot of link posts. I still use RSS for all the original reasons, even if most of my friends look puzzled by the acronym "RSS." RSS still solves the "too many sites, too little time" problem extremely well, especially for occas…
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Why - they work fine, they dont change, they dont add a burden to the existing product? Taking something that works out of your product doesnt ever make people happy, and its never "the perfect use case" to remove features that work. Its a "well that's ok that we wont take this on anymore and let those users manage their own problem" use case.
> they dont add a burden to the existing product? I assume you work in tech, maybe even as a developer. So you know full well that every single unused line of code, let alone an entire feature, adds a maintenance, security, documentation and testing burden. > and its never "the perfect use case" to remove features that work. It absolutely is, if it makes those features better and gives them a focused place to develop…
Having struggled with RSS in the past, I will give a few reasons of why I ended up removing RSS from my blog: 1. RSS traffic trickled down to almost nothing. Hardly anyone uses RSS any more as a daily reader^1. 2. Spammers were using my RSS feed to wholesale copy the content from my blog. Identical copies of my blog went up in several different locations, each with their own copy of ads from the scammers. Some of the…
To address #3, provide only the title and a very brief excerpt in your feed with a link to the full monetized post.
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> they dont add a burden to the existing product? I assume you work in tech, maybe even as a developer. So you know full well that every single unused line of code, let alone an entire feature, adds a maintenance, security, documentation and testing burden. > and its never "the perfect use case" to remove features that work. It absolutely is, if it makes those features better and gives them a focused place to develop…
Yet Pocket is a core part of Firefox instead of an extension.
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iOS these days has a major problem of allowing webpages to redirect automatically to the app or worse, to the App Store. Every now and again I have to fight Amazon to let me open a link in Safari instead of the Amazon app. Generally it's because I cannot purchase the item inside of the app (digital content like movies and Kindle books), but they still automatically open the app and make me do a dance to get it in Saf…
Why have the apps installed at all? There is nothing I can do in the apps that I can’t do on the websites. Usually the apps are worse.
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Why have the apps installed at all? There is nothing I can do in the apps that I can’t do on the websites. Usually the apps are worse.
Watching ESPN in the browser is a worse experience than ESPN’s app. I have the app on my phone for this. There are reasons to have apps on a phone. That said, it is infuriating that when I click an ESPN link on twitter, it opens in the ESPN app and not a web browser.
Also, I much rather go to the Youtube site on mobile than use the app.
RSS is dead... long since dead. There are a myriad of reasons why it died. 1. People don't want you to use RSS. They want you to visit their site so they make money from ads. 2. Only a small percentage of users care about RSS. 3. DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle. The RSS feed often breaks an no one really knows about it. Source: Me... I was one of the inventors of RSS and run an feed SaaS platform which only has…
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I have heard it said that normal people don't use RSS but many power users still do. I'm now on Netnewswire 5: https://nnw.ranchero.com/ and write a blog: http://jakeseliger.com that includes a lot of link posts. I still use RSS for all the original reasons, even if most of my friends look puzzled by the acronym "RSS." RSS still solves the "too many sites, too little time" problem extremely well, especially for occas…
Heck, I only read your blog through RSS. Presumably at some point in the past I saw it, thought it was nifty, and added the feed. Haven't visited since.